Truro, MA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
180 ft 55 m130 ft 40 m110 ft 35 m66 ft 20 m22 ft 7 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Truro sits at about 56 ft (17 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
56 ft 17 m
most residents: 18–120 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on the Atlantic Ocean
Highest
180 ft 55 m
on the north side
Average
62 ft 19 m
all land inside town boundaries
Truro spans about 180 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 56 ft17 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the north side | 180 ft55 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets the Atlantic Ocean | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Truro | 7 ft2 m |
| Airport (PVC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.4 mi northwest of the town boundaries | 8 ft2 m |
| Average of all land | 62 ft19 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States
- Population
- 2,484 2024 est.
- Land area
- 21.0 sq mi + 5.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 119 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.9934° N, 70.0497° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Provincetown Municipal (PVC) 8 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 02652 02666
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Brewster82 ft
- East Harwich60 ft
- Truro56 ft
- East Dennis55 ft
- South Dennis48 ft
- Orleans38 ft
- North Eastham37 ft
- Wellfleet37 ft
- Eastham36 ft
- Dennis32 ft
- Provincetown16 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Massachusetts344th highest of 435
- Towns in Barnstable County7th highest of 46
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- The Highlands, Barnstable County160 ft
- Green Hill, Barnstable County160 ft
- Smalls Hill150 ft
- Peters Hill, Barnstable County140 ft
- Corn Hill120 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town boundaries, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census town boundaries (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, −7 ft at 42.0699° N, 70.1246° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.